Car-coupling



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D.'KENNEDY, Jrl

GAR GOUPLING.

N0. 302,263. Patented July 22, 1884.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2,

` D. KENNEDY, Jr.

GAR GOUPLING.

NO. 302,263. Patented July 22, 1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

DAVID KENNEDY, JR., OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,263, dated July 22, 1884.

Application filed May 7, 1884. (No model.)

.To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID KENNEDY, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing atErie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Car-Couplers, of Whichthe `following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in car-couplers in Which the coupling-pins are raised by arms or levers; and the objects of my improvements are, first, to reach the piu by a peculiarly-constructed three-armed rodframe reaching to the sides and top of the car, rising to a iiXed limit and against a spring which compels the pin to drop suddenly into the link; second, to connect this rod to the` coupling-pin by a slide on Which the pin, by the eye in its head, has a horizontal longitudinal motion, to adapt the arrangement to the motion ofthe draw-head against its springs; third, by means of a movable face-plate over the entire draw-head, to adapt the coupler to cars of different construction and height, a slide from the movable draw-head uncovering the hole for'the pin When the cars come together. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of the coup- 1er. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line yy, Fig. 3; Fig. 3, avertical longitudiualsection With the coupling pin elevated as the cars approach for coupling; Fig. 4, a like section with the heads in contact and the coupling-pin dropped; Fig. 5, a side elevation of a modified construction of the coupler; Fig. 6, a vertical transverse section on the dotted line Fig. 5; Fig. 7, a vertical longitudinal section of the coupler somewhat modied.

A is the body of the car; B, the coupling;

lC, the head of the coupling; C', the mouth of the same; C2, the dividing-rib in the same; D, the movable face-plate; E, the couplingpin; F, lthe link; F', solid end of the link having ahole therein; G, face-plate springs; II, the ordinary coupling; I, the trip-plate closing the opening for pin E When the plate is out from the draw-head, and holding the .pin as in Fig. 3; J, Fig. 7, spring holding plate D away from the draw-head; G', flat spring for operating the face-plate d, Fig. 5; e, eye in the head of the coupling-bolt; d, Fig. 2, main guide-rods; d', guide-rods; d2, pins in guide-rods; cl3, guide-arms which are dovetailed in the lcoupling -head; c, Fig. 5, stop-pin; D2, Fig. 7, joint of face-plate; 10 12 12, operating arms of the coupler; 9, hinged section of the coupling-rods which lifts the pin e, and along the end of which the pin slips to accommodate the compressions and reactions of the draw-head; 13, slides holding the rods 10; 18, angle stop-block to prevent the arms 10 12 from lifting the pinctoo high; 16, spring against which section 9 presses to compel a quick descent of the pin when the trip-plate I uncovers the pin-hole; 14, braces in the rod-frame by which frame the coupling-pin is reached; 11, handle of this frame at the top of the car.

In case it is necessary to remove the pin E, the angle-stop 13 Will be turned up on its pin, giving room for rod 12 to be lifted sufficiently high for the purpose.

In case of coupling with an old coupler, the

Asolid end of thelink is placed in the old coup- 1er to prevent the link from sliding.

The coupler is operated by the handles of the rods 10 12 at either side or the top of the car.

Ih'e face-plate D, operating the slide I, covers the whole large face ofthe bumper, so that bumpers of other construction or of a different 4. rlhe stop 18, in combination With thc spring 16, arm 9, and frame 10 11 12 14.

DAVID KENNEDY, JR. Witnesses: J. W. VETMOEE, J. It. SHEEWooD. 

